Redwood Materials — a lithium battery recycling company based in Carson City — received more than $105 million in tax abatements.

A Nevada internet provider won a $27 million federal grant to bring high-speed internet to technologically underserved Lovelock, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday in a swing through Reno. 

State lawmakers on a joint special committee studying the zones met to probe the contentious proposal, which would give county-level authority to a brick-and-mortar community Blockchains hopes to build.

In the 142 days between announcing a deal to go public and its initial listing on the Nasdaq, Las Vegas-based social gaming provider PlayStudios kept busy.

Environmentalists and electronic repair shops on Monday hailed a bill making it easier for consumers to repair their electronic devices as a way to reduce toxic waste. But technology firms criticized the legislation for potential cybersecurity risks and unintended consequences.

Cryptocurrency company Blockchains wants to build a new city in the desert. That will require water in an area where it is scarce. To get the water it needs, Blockchains is looking to rural Nevada. Last year, the company acquired water rights in northern Washoe County.

The proposal by Blockchains LLC would create essentially autonomous districts that function as a county-within-a-county, taking over responsibilities such as tax collection, K-12 education and other services normally provided by county governments. Such “zones” could only be created by a private developer who owns more than 50,000 acres of land (such as Blockchains), promises to invest up to $1 billion in the Zone and agrees to levy an industry-specific tax on an “innovative technology” based in the Zone itself.

Even if Angela McVicars and her school-age daughters started the day with functioning internet, a sense of foreboding clouded their remote learning. They knew it was a matter of when, not if, the internet connection would suddenly freeze and require a manual reboot — a process that could take a handful of minutes or close to an hour if a call to their service provider was needed.

Cashless gaming has been used on slot machines throughout the casino industry for at least two decades, although it wasn’t initially accepted by customers. When the original systems, dubbed ticket-in/ticket-out, were introduced, they confused older slot players, who didn’t understand why winnings came out in the form of a ticket voucher, rather than cash, which they had originally loaded into the machine.

Usually, the national We The People competition takes place over three days in Leesburg, Virginia at the end of April. This year, organizers held the competition over Zoom.

Before COVID-19 shut down airports and in-person meetings, the corporate trainer was traveling around the globe, speaking at conferences, facilitating business meetings and training clients on how to develop better communication and address interpersonal conflict.

New facial recognition technology could be a game-changer for Las Vegas casinos. But exactly how the industry implements this tech could be as much a minefield as a business boon

Roughly 175,000 people came through the The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year, listening to keynote speakers and checking out booths showing off tech’s latest and greatest.

Sixty-five percent of Nevada’s rural population is without access to sufficient telecommunications compared to five percent of the urban population, according to a 2016 report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Nevada’s state leaders have been working on the issue for years, and a discussion on broadband access came last week at the Western Governors' Association’s (WGA) annual winter meeting in Las Vegas.

Though an ever-growing number of studies show Nevada among the states most at-risk for job losses from automation over the next 15 years, a new report released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution suggests it may not be artificial intelligence driving those changes.

Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford has announced he will join attorneys general across the country calling for an investigation of Google’s online advertising practices. Ford said his primary reason for participating in the probe is to identify and act on the tech giant’s practices that violate state antitrust laws.

The internet’s transformation from a novelty to a necessity has left thousands of families at a disadvantage if they lack an internet subscription or a computer or other device with which to connect. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, along with a data security firm, are looking to change that.

Last week, Las Vegas signed onto a resolution from the U.S. Conference of Mayors — cosponsored by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young — in which member cities agreed not to pay ransoms related to malware attacks, just weeks after Baltimore paid more than $18 million to rebuild its systems after a ransomware attack.

Google plans to announce two new projects on Monday: a $600 million data center in Henderson and a $1 million community development project focused on funding and working alongside Nevada-based nonprofits. 

Though it may be less exciting than the techno-future vision heavily promoted by the company,  Berns (who will own the bank through a separate holding company and not through Blockchains) said the acquisition of the Las Vegas-based Kirkwood Bank of Nevada is a small but critical step in helping the nascent company achieve its wildly ambitious goals.